Improvement in bails and handles for pails



E. T. OOVELL. BAIL 0R HANDLE FOR PAILS, &c.

No. 96,889. Patented Nov. 16, 1869.

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BRooKLYN;NnwYoaa 13m am No, 96,889, dated. November 16,1869; emtedated November 10. 1869.-

IMPROVEMENTIN BAILS AND HANDLES vFOR PAIL S, 8L0- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name l 'ojall whom it may concern.- g Be it known that I, EDWARD ,T. Oovnma-of the city of Brooklyn, State of N ew York, have invented a" new and improved Attachment of Guards to Bails'or Handlesof Cans, Pails, and other'vessels; andl do hereby declare the following to be a full-and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accom-- panying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which- Figure 1.is a side view, and Figure 2 a plan of a wooden guard for metallic handles. 7 Figure 3, aperspective view of the same when secured to the handle;

Figure 4, a top view of handle in fig. 3; {Li Figure 5, .a transverse section 'in the line a: x of.

Figure 6, a sectiona'l'view of a modification of the mode of combining the clamp with the guard; Figure 7 a'longitudinal section in line 31y of fig. 6; and

- Figure 8, a sectional view, illustrating a complete double guard, divided to admit the liandlefand unitedand secured by means of outer metallicclampscr clas'ps.

. The .nature of my invention consists in. the attach-l ment' of a suitable guard-pieces to metallic handles or bails, to perfect and complete the same;, by means of metallic clamps, as hereinafter fully described.

The customary mode. of attaching guards to'handles or to hailshas been to pass the wire of the bail through aJongitudinal perforation in-a cylindrical guard-piece.

If the guard becomes broken, the handle or bail must be removed to replace it.

-My invention admits of the readyattachmentof a guard to the handle or'bail, without removing the latter,-and it is much cheaper in its-manufacture and attachment than the-old form.

The guard which I use is a semi; cylindricalor rounded piece A, of any suitable material, by preference, however, of wood, having a flat upper surface bevelled at its ends, as shown in fig. 1, to fit the straighter flattened portion of the handle-0r bail B, and notched, as" illustrated in fig-2, to receive'and embrace the same, and thus be-prevented from turning thereon.' i

This guard-piece A, so fashioned, is securely held in place upon the under side of the metallic handle or; ball B,.by means of a clamp O, ofimetal, so bent as tol partially embrace the metal of the handle-or bailB, extending over the upper surface 'of the guard A, (see figL 4,) and, curving over its edges closely, pass down, far enough on each side thereof to embrace and uphold-the same, as illustrated in fig. 5.

A slippingof the guard A in its clamp-plate, Ois prevented, either by means of small tacks or bydu-Z dentations of the plate 0 into the guard-pieca-"ad shown in fig. 4,01 else by cutting a recess iu jthe; guard-piece, as shown in fig. '7, toreceive tlie clampplate.

may be made yet more ;secure"bycutting grooves dd, fig. 7, in the sidesof the guard-piece A,-tc receive the edges of the clamp O, which are in such case presseddown into the same; (See fig, 6,)

] Instead of using simply a scan-cylindrical guards complete double-oval'cylindrical guard upon the;me-' tfillio vhandleor b'ail B, by means or outer clamp-plates p'clasps. I

- In thiscase the oval or cylindrical. guard E, fig. .8,

' is divided lougitudinally,-and the two halves are secured by means-of outer clamp plate s fj, bent to'honform' thereto, and whose edges pass into grooves 'cutv into the sides of each division, as illustrated in'fig; 8. The clasps orclamp-plates maybe cast or'swaged; or else out out of sheet-metal.

- Having thus fully described my'iuventiou, 1- laim th'erei'n as new, andidesire to secure by Let ters Patent- 1. The combination of a guard or guard-piece, A, with the handle or hail of a can, pail, box, or other vessel, to form ajhandle for the same, "by means of metal 'clampeplateapartially embracing the-wire and guard, substantially-as herein set forth. 2. The combination, of a longitudinally divided and flattened or cylindrically ofpolygonally shapedguard 15, with a metallic bail,B, and with metal clamps to se-' cure and unite the two divisions of the guard, sub

stantially in the manner herein set forth.- .v E. T'.- O0VELL,

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piece, A, asj-ust described, I, contemplate secnringa 

